When Harry Met Sally, Tokyo style

[Aaron Gerow]

>I know I didn't imagine it, because I have the flyer here in front of me, 
>but I found out today that a Japanese remake of Rob Reiner/Nora Ephron's 
>ditzy romantic comedy from '89 is opening in Tokyo on July 26th, under the 
>title of KOIBITO TACHI NO KOKAN (I may have read the last Kanji wrong and 
>come up with my own slightly risqu$B;
(Bplay on words by accident - my 
>dictionary is now giving me the cryptic definition of "between the legs" 
>for KOKAN, though the kanji is different!). 

Couple things about this. First, I haven't seen the flyer myself, but I 
doubt the title can be Koibitotachi no kokan, if we treat kokan as 
ko-ka-n. Perhaps ko-u-ka-n? Note also that the Japanese release title for 
When Harry Met Sally is _Koibitotachi no yokan_. Are you sure you are 
reading this right? Second, Yamakawa Naoto's Toki no kaori: Remember Me, 
which was released last fall, is sometimes called a psudo remake of When 
Harry Met Sally, although its really a remake of Kim Jung-Kueon's 
Remember Me.

Aaron Gerow
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